PAST FORM FOR GERUNDS (The Perfect Gerund)

PAST FORM FOR GERUNDS
The perfect gerund

Most gerunds use the -ing form of a verb. There is, however, a past form for gerunds:   having +past participle.

I regret saying that. / I regret having said that.
Excuse me for bothering you. / Excuse me for having bothered you.
I'm worried about not passing the test. / I'm worried about not having passed the test.


Past Forms Of Gerunds And Infinitives?



 followings are argues between me and my teacher ;the first lines are my teacher answers and the seconds are my answers(based on a grammar in the end of summit book about Past forms of gerunds and infinitives i insist the second lines are correct)
please help me i asked around many english teachers and all were in doubt.

I was disappointed to be told the news.
I was disappointed to have been told the news.

He risked being fired from his job.
He risked having been fired from his job.

we were delighted to be invited to the wedding.
we were delighted to have been invited to the wedding.

she arranged to be taken to the airport.
she arranged to have been taken to the airport.

Thank you so much for helping me.



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The form and uses of the perfect gerund


A special form of the perfect gerund is “having been,” where the verb “be” in the perfect gerund isn’t followed by the usual action verb but by a noun or noun phrase instead. As I had taken up very briefly in Jose Carillo’s English Forum in 2011, this form is used to denote a state or condition that no longer subsists at the time of speaking, as in these sentence constructions:

1. A sentence using a perfect gerund as subject: “Having been a student journalist is a big advantage to mass communication majors.”

2. A sentence using a perfect gerund as object of the preposition “about”: “Edna very seldom talked about having been a beauty queen.”

3. A sentence using a perfect gerund as direct object of the verb: “The former long-serving CEO hated having been a dummy all along.”
This winds up our two-part discussion of the perfect infinitive and the perfect gerund.

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